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I'm setting up a network bridge on CentOS 6.4 and I'm not able to pass icmp or tcp traffic via eth1. UDP traffic looks fine. I'm sure that my test host is cabled to eth1 correctly. My config files look like the following and iptables are disabled.

I've done this dozens of times before without issues; I'm at a loss. What am I missing?

/etc/sysctl.conf

...
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
net.ipv4.conf.proxy_arp =  1
...

/etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-br0

DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
ONBOOT=YES
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.20.254
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.20.1
DNS1=192.168.100.80

/etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
TYPE=Ethernet
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
ONBOOT=yes
BRIDGE=br0
HWADDR=00:0C:29:ED:C7:71

/etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth1

DEVICE=eth1
TYPE=Ethernet
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
ONBOOT=yes
BRIDGE=br0
HWADDR=00:0C:29:ED:C7:7B
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  • What does brctl show give?
    – Nils
    Sep 11, 2013 at 14:08
  • @Nils it was fine. Just figured it out.
    – Tim Brigham
    Sep 11, 2013 at 14:11

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Urgh.. I'm doing this in a virtual environment. I just forgot to set the two vSwitches to allow promiscuous traffic. Once I turned that on everything else is working as it should.

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  • Where were the vSwitches in this environment?
    – Nils
    Sep 11, 2013 at 14:15
  • @Nils - connected to both Eth1 and Eth0. This specific bridge is for monitoring and testing in high latency environments.
    – Tim Brigham
    Sep 11, 2013 at 14:24
  • I still do not get it. eth0 and eth1 are connected to other virtual devices (for latency simulation) and these devices had to be set to promisc mode?
    – Nils
    Sep 11, 2013 at 14:42

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